Railway car



G. G. GILPIN Jan. 23, 1934.

RAILWAY CAR Filed Oct. 28, 1929 4 Sheets-Sheet l Jan. 23, 1934.

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RAILWAY CAR' i Filed oct. 28, 1929 4 sheets-sheet `4 lmwlnuw 1/ r zo Patented Jan. 2.3, 1934 v Y fr Unirse 1starflszisfPsfIeNT, ,'oFI-icel-m RAILWAY can Garth G. Giipin, Riverside, Ill., assignor to Union Metal Products Company, hic ago, Ill., a corporation of Delaware Application October 28, 1929. vSerial No. 102,936 K i 3 Claims. (Cl. 10S-249) The invention relates to railway dump cars outer ends. The body bolster is provided with a u having doors at the lower ends of the hopper flange 11 and gusset 12 for such attachment. so that the load maybe discharged by simply The draft sills 15, which in my construction, are opening the doors. integral with the body bolster, extend from the An object of the invention is to provide such bolster to the end of the car and are secured to op a railway dump car with an unobstructed hopper the end sill 16, which end sill is also secured to and hopper door opening extending between the the extremities 17 of the outer beam 9 of the side walls oi the car and to make such an arside sill construction. Diagonal braces 20 extend rangement possible by eliminating the usual cenfrom the ends of the draft sills 15 to the ends of ter sill construction and providing strong side the body bolsters 2 and are also preferably cast 65 walls to carry the weight of the car and its load to integral with these elements. the body holsters and to take care oi the buning l also cast the hopper floor support or cross shocks of coupling. bearers 21 integral with the body bolster mem- Another object of the invention is to provide ber which extends upwardly from the topof the a single casting comprising a body bolster and bolster and is provided with an upper web 22 'YQr supports for the hopper oor positioned above Dalallel lO the hODlOeY flOOr 23 and Secured therea the bolster and other supports for the hopper to. rihis support also reinforces the bolster to iioor positioned laterally of the bolster. carry vertical loads.

Another object is to provide an integral cast- I als@ preferably extend the draft sills back ing comprising body bolster, draft sills, hopper (25) of the body bolster to the hopper floor 23 i5v hoor supports, and diagonal braces extending bewhere the casting is provided with a web 26 tween the ends of the draft sills and the bolster. parallel t0 the hopper OOI' and Secured thereto.v

In the drawings: in this arrangement, therefore, the integral Fig. 1 is a plan view of a typical car according bolster member supports the hopper floor at two to my invention wherein the floor plates are par places. By terminating this castingrat the hop- 8 0 tially removed. per Viioor the ,hopper is permitted to extend the Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 or Fig. 1. full width of the car between the side walls or Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. at least between the side sill constructions:

Fig. 4 shows on the left side a section on line The cross bearers 30 extend between the op- 30 li-li of Fig. 2 and on the right side an end eleposite side walls of the car and are secured there- 85 vation of the car. i to, as well as to the side sill constructions, by Fig. 5 is a perspective View showing my conwebs 3l and rivets r32. These cross bearers are struction. provided with diagonal braces 33 so that they The car illustrated comprises spaced apart prevent the side walls from buckling or deiiecting 35 body bolsters 2 performing the usual functions of under load. They are preferably also provided 9 0,y such elements which are primarily to transfer the with an extension 36 to which the top chord `7 weight of the car and its load to the truck upon is secured to hold it in alignment. The lower which it is supported in such a manner as to perportion of this cross bearer is provided with mit the truck to swivel under it when theV car is downwardly inclined walls 37 so as to assist in 40 rounding curves. l prefer to form the centeror bracing the car in a horizontal plane. These 9o swivel plate 3, as well as the side bearings 4, as an sloping walls are secured. to the side sill construcintegral part of the body bolster.Y tions. 4

The side walls each comprise a load retaining The doors e0 extend the full width of the plate 6, a top chord '7, and a lower chord (side hopper, that is, the distance between the side sill sill structure) which members combine to form constructions, and are preferably hinged to the 100 a side girder to transfer the load to the body sloping walls 37 of the cross bearer. Any conn holsters. In my construction 1 eliminate the venient means may be used to operate and lock usual center sills and provide extra strong side these doors. Y y sill constructions to perform their functions. The end wall Li2 is supported by the end post e3 5ol The side sill structures each comprise two and corner post 44. and is provided with a top re- 10 5 beams secured together to iorm a box girder, the inforcement 45. outer oi said beams 9 being attached to the cuter The accompanying drawings illustrate the end of the bodybolsters 2 and extending therepreferred form of the invention, though it is to beyond, whereas the inner of said beams 10 is be understood that the invention is not limited attached to the body bolsters adjacent their to the exact details of construction shown and 13,19

described, as it is obvious that Various modiiications thereof, within the scope of the claims, will occur to persons skilled in the art.

I claim:

1. In a railway car, the combination of spaced apart side sheets, spaced apart side sills, and a pair of substantially duplicate castings secured together adjacent the center of the car and se cured to said side sills to form a cross bearer of the car, each of said castings formed with an integral diagonal brace extending from substantially the center of the car to the upper part of the side sheet to which it is secured.

2. In a railway car, the combination of spaced apart side sills, a pair of substantially duplicate castings secured together adjacent the center of the car and secured to saidl side sills to form a cross bearer of the car, the lower margins of said castings formed into outwardly flared portions, and sloping oor sheets secured to said flared portions.

3. In a railway car, the combination of spaced apart side sills, a pair of substantially duplicate castings secured together adjacent the center of the car and secured to said side sills to form a cross bearer of the car, each of said castings formed with an integral diagonal braceextending from substantially the center of the car to the upper part of the side sheet to which it is secured, the lower margins of said castings formed into outwardly flared portions, and sloping floor sheets secured to said iiared portions.

GARTH G. GILPIN. 

